Is it time the Aston Martin DB5 no longer appeared?
Kent007
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I love the car for how it looks and what it represents. I also love the modern Aston Martin's and it feels like by bringing back the DB5 like in Goldeneye, Casino Royale and Skyfall, it's only causing dis-continuity and if Bond is to be modernised, then surely his cars need the same treatment?
I get why they have appeared, to keep some of the classic aspects of Bond, but after Skyfall celebrated 50 years of Bond, maybe it's time the DB5 was put in storage and left there and a new car was brought in to create it's own legend.
P.S- I know Silva destroyed the Skyfall DB5 which might prevent it from coming back, but with continuity in Bond it's still possible
I get why they have appeared, to keep some of the classic aspects of Bond, but after Skyfall celebrated 50 years of Bond, maybe it's time the DB5 was put in storage and left there and a new car was brought in to create it's own legend.
P.S- I know Silva destroyed the Skyfall DB5 which might prevent it from coming back, but with continuity in Bond it's still possible
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Next time we see Bond there'll be a new MI6 (please mr Logan include a Q branch scene) and new M's office, no ancestral home and no DB5. Even the PPK got ditched twice, a sign that Bond will ask for something with a higher capacity in bond 24? A dress down by the armourer, DN style might be a cool nod.
If the DB5 was there in the background of Q branch being repaired/rebuilt/stripped of parts or something I wouldn't mind. To be honest they'll have to be pretty imaginative if they resurrect it to its former glory, so a safe bet is it won't be there.
I liked it in TND where bond used it as his own car and had something more current provided by the firm.
But, bear this in mind, that Aston Martin DB5 is the only car I have ever witnessed being cheered at on its introduction. When that lock up door went back and the lights came on people were audibly happy.
If I'm honest, I'd like it to stay and have some screen time, but not as the company car.
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I truly believe that newer does not mean better and "The old ways are sometimes the best".
I enjoyed the DB5 scenes in Goldeneye, but I would much rather see 007 get a current 2013 aston martin like in CR. Daniel needs to get his own trademark vehicle the same way Rog had the Lotus and Tim had the Volante.
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I think Skyfall was probably the DB5's final farewell (and a brilliant one at that).
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If they can find it.... ;%
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I'll appreciate the DB5 in Skyfall a lot more if we never see it again. Craig looked pretty pissed when it got blown up.
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will be its last apperance.
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I didn't like the DB5 showing up in Brosnan's hands. If Q was still maintaining such a vintage vehicle,... WTF? What a waste of taxpayers' money. And if it was the original Thunderball DB5 (remember the "original" was wrecked at Auric Goldfinger's factory and almost assuredly dismantled), would Bond have "inherited it" when removed from service? Certainly, it would be a lame duck with all the modifications removed, but the damage from modifications left behind.
In the books, Bond had a sort of anachronistic Bentley, a "sports car" of a bygone era that he lovingly maintained. In years past, I fantasized that a modern Bond might also have a "classic car" of his own, perhaps a series 1-1/2 Jaguar XKE. Now THAT would be a Bentley successor. I seem to recall a book reference to him maintaining it in a corner of dept. garages (Q branch?); I liked thinking that Bond kept an XKE or DBS down there while taking a Lotus or some other modern crap on missions.
I rather like that in CR (2006), Bond acquires one and of course can keep it. As a young guy, with a likely short career and fast death, a classic car that could take him out of his day job world might be nice fit.
Okay, off to see SKYFALL at the local cine....
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Does Bond still own the one from CR? It obviously wasn't the tricked out one in Skyfall. (with the ejection seat and machine guns)
hmm
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I mean, we watch it get destroyed in Skyfall. So that motivates Bond to wins another DB5 in Casino Royale. That would make sense, except the films are in the wrong order.
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The hell are you on about? 8-)
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i personally really liked its reappearance in Brosnans take on the bond films as his own personal car in GE TND and TWINE (which is in a deleted scene when driving to Kings Funeral)
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As Mini G said, its nice to see the Classic car but not as the company car. - Don't get me wrong, the DBS doing cartwheels was sad as well as exciting, but QoS had another one. - That also got shot up. I am uncertain we will see the DB5 again in Mr Craig further Bond films after what happened in Skyfall. I was more upset about that than the "other" upsetting scene. However, the car is as much a part of Bond's world as the suits, the women, Q's toys and M frowning at Bonds antics.
No Aston was not part of Sir Rogers films but it did come back eventually. The DB5 is beautiful classic car, and the Aston Martin range is part of the format, and the legacy. I certainly hope we do see them (inc the DB5) again.
Plus from a commercial perspective, look how many models, toys and driving experience sales they generate!
a) a MI5 DB5 with all the 1964 gadgets is still around and functiuonal, and
b) Bond has easy access to it, or owns it. I can't be the DB5 that Dimitrios lost to him.
But it has a dreamy sort of quality that I think rises Skyfall above the formulaic action movie realm into a Story. Skyfall certainly has a story that I've been thinking about...
I don't see the "motivation" for Bond to "win another" in Nassau. I do see a motivation for the filmmakers to perhaps show Bond having some kind of "fun car" for when he's not on a mission.
Disclosure: Aside from Goldfinger, I have never fully accepted the conceit that MI6 or any other government branch has funds to convert several $300,000 vehicles into spy vehicles. Also, Bond doesn't always need to look like a rich jetsetter, and doesn't need an exoticar. In Goldfinger, there was a specific reason. It (and the various Lotus cars) has become a trope that gets slapped onto a film and for me takes away from the story. I rather hope that the DB5's descruction in Skyfall means they will no longer be trotting out a 1963 vehicle to look so out of place in a 21st century spy yarn. But I'm one of those curmudgeons who dislikes more of the films than I like.
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Give Bond a SAAB.
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The new Chinese electric SAAB in 2014 without the trademark logo, or older discontinued Swedish SAAB?
High class yet low key.
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